Q 01/05

Black Christmas (1974) was produced and directed by which filmmaker, who later made A Christmas Story?

A) Wes Craven

B) John Carpenter

C) Bob Clark

D) David Cronenberg

Answer · why

C) Bob Clark

Bob Clark produced and directed Black Christmas in 1974 and went on to make Porky's and A Christmas Story in the early 1980s.

Q 02/05

In which Canadian city was Black Christmas filmed?

A) Toronto

B) Montreal

C) Vancouver

D) Ottawa

Answer · why

A) Toronto

Black Christmas was shot in Toronto in early 1974; the sorority house was a real home on Clarendon Crescent that the director found while location sco...

Q 03/05

What was the working title of Roy Moore's screenplay?

A) Silent Night

B) Stop Me

C) The Attic

D) Sorority Row

Answer · why

B) Stop Me

Roy Moore's script was titled 'Stop Me'; the director renamed it Black Christmas, liking the irony of something dark happening at a festive time.

Q 04/05

Which urban legend inspired the film?

A) The hook-handed killer

B) The babysitter and the man upstairs

C) The vanishing hitchhiker

D) Bloody Mary in the mirror

Answer · why

B) The babysitter and the man upstairs

The film draws on 'the babysitter and the man upstairs', the legend in which threatening calls turn out to be coming from inside the house, which Blac...

Q 05/05

What nickname have the sorority sisters given the obscene caller?

A) The Moaner

B) The Whisperer

C) The Breather

D) Santa

Answer · why

A) The Moaner

The sisters call him 'the Moaner' for his obscene, moaning calls; the caller raves about someone named Billy and later echoes an argument Jess had wit...